Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: Jurek on 18 November, 2023, 08:11:19 pm
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Surprised that no one has done this, so here we go:
Blade Runner
The Matrix
The Maltese Falcon.
In the Heat of the Night
Italian Job (the first one)
Where Eagles Dare.
Brazil.
The Sound of Music
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Taxi Driver
Amelie
City of Lost Children
Midnight Cowboy
Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas
Oldboy (original Korean version)
Trainspotting
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The Long Good Friday
Gregory's Girl
I'll think of some more later.
(Later)
Casablanca
To Have and Have Not
In the Heat of the Night
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Office Space
Dead Poets Society
2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Wars (the original one, since called A New Hope)
Brief Encounter
North by Northwest
This Is Spinal Tap
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And seeing as how TV shitvertisers have decided it’s already Christmas:
Die Hard, and
Die Hard 2
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And seeing as how TV shitvertisers have decided it’s already Christmas:
Die Hard, and
Die Hard 2
Now I have an advent calendar. Ho, ho, ho! (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/617DMriW58L._AC_SL1500_.jpg) :demon:
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Rogerzilla nominated 2001 A Space Oddyssey.
I saw the Cinerama version, which was spectacular with a capital F. I've tried to watch it in other formats, but they were disappointing.
Are there any Cinerama cinems left?
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The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)
Odd Man Out
The Third Man
Day for Night
Cinema Paradiso
Shadowlands
The World's Fastest Indian
The Ipcress File
I reserve the right to add to this list when I'm properly awake!
Scrooge (Alistair Sim - uncolourised)
Sorry, I forgot Amelie - nice choice, HF!
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Ah, Cinerama. I saw it (2001 A Space Odyssey like that too. Wonderful.
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Where Eagles Dare.
I love that film...favourite ever big-star, adventure-type film.
and....[to name a few, so many]
Twelve Angry Men
The Conversation
Nil by Mouth
The Rebel
Kes
The Big Lebowski
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Apollo 13
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A very long engagement
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12 angry men
Benny and Joon
Muppets treasure island
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Mad Max 2
All You Need Is Cash
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Local Hero (except the bit with seals in)
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Where Eagles Dare.
I love that film...favourite ever big-star, adventure-type film.
and....[to name a few, so many]
Twelve Angry Men
The Conversation
Nil by Mouth
The Rebel
Kes
The Big Lebowski
I seem to recall that it has the highest number of kills for any film featuring Clint Eastwood.
My Gran took me to the ABC Streatham to see it when it was first released.
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Memento
Blues Brothers
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The Long Good Friday
Gregory's Girl
I'll think of some more later.
(Later)
Casablanca
To Have and Have Not
In the Heat of the Night
(More later)
Ob. Cycling: Breaking Away
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The Apartment
The Hill
The Colour Purple
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A Matter of Life and Death.
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A Matter of Life and Death.
Did you catch the radio adaptation broadcast recently? Probably still available on BBC Sounds.
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Memento
Blues Brothers
Blues Brothers, yes, definitely!
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Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources
To Kill a Mockingbird
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Bad Day at Black Rock
In The Heat of the Night.
Comedies.
Our Man in Havana
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Local Hero
The Blues Brothers
Blazing Saddles
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A Matter of Life and Death.
Did you catch the radio adaptation broadcast recently? Probably still available on BBC Sounds.
Ooh no, I'll give that a listen, ta.
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The General
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The Seven Samurai
Ran
Andrei Rublev
Stalker
Chinatown
Don't Look Now
A Touch of Evil
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In addition to many of those above
Catch 22
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Reservoir Dogs
The Godfather
Alien
The Terminator
Attack on Precinct 13
Robocop
Audition
And no doubt many more
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In addition to many of those above
Catch 22
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Reservoir Dogs
The Godfather
Alien
The Terminator
Attack on Precinct 13
Robocop
Audition
And no doubt many more
Assault on Precinct 13. ITYM. The first version.
Formidable work from John Carpenter.
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You are of course correct, and yes, the original version.
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You are of course correct, and yes, the original version.
I'm advised that it was made on a stupidly low budget .
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Vanishing Point.
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You are of course correct, and yes, the original version.
I'm advised that it was made on a stupidly low budget .
John Carpenter? Low budget?
Dark Star.
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Should add Patton to the list. Epic is an understatement. Also, seven Oscars (would have been eight, but George C. Scott refused his).
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Robh's mention of The Seven Samurai prompts me to add another Kurosawa film:-
Dersu Uzala
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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, even if it’s only for the soundtrack.
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Off the top of my head, Important Cultural References™ from the days before subtitles that I've made barakta watch over the years...
The Right Stuff
Airplane!
Spaceballs The Movie
The Great Escape
The Italian Job
Tremors
Die Hard
Towering Inferno
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Works in progress:
Blazing Saddles
Full Metal Jacket[1]
Gremlins
Rififi
Every Which Way But Loose
The Poseidon Adventure
[1] It wouldn't be on the list, except that thanks to her ex her only knowledge of the film is the woman-offering-a-blowjob scene, which gives completely the wrong impression and therefore needs correcting.
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Rififi
Great choice!
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Gun Crazy (1950)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Train (1964)
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The Princess Bride
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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, even if it’s only for the soundtrack kitten.
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Once Upon a Time in the West.
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The opening scene is terrific - I hope Jack Elam and Woody Strode were paid well for their all-too-short roles! Charles Bronson has no idea how a harmonica works, though, although maybe he didn't know what tune was going on the soundtrack when they shot the scene.
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Diva
Tampopo
Eraserhead
Great Expectations
The English Patient
Whiplash
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Rogerzilla nominated 2001 A Space Oddyssey.
I saw the Cinerama version, which was spectacular with a capital F. I've tried to watch it in other formats, but they were disappointing.
Are there any Cinerama cinems left?
Yeah, that's how I saw it too. Best bit was basking in the wonderful all-enveloping Blue Danube as the shuttle from Earth waltzed with the space station.
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Once Upon a Time in the West.
Has to be between West and America for Leone's best film.
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Rochelle, Rochelle
Sack Lunch
Prognosis Negative
CheckMate
Chunnel
Brown-Eyed Girl
Firestorm
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Battleship Potemkin
Citizen Kane
The Ladykillers (original)
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Pulp fiction
Stand by me
Dog day afternoon
This is Spinal Tap
Mystery train
The long Good Friday
The big Lebowski
Easy rider
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Anything by Powell and Pressburger with special mention for:
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Red Shoes
Black Narcissus
A Matter of Life and Death
Ice Cold in Alex
Lawrence of Arabia
Apocalypses Now
Alien
Aliens
An American in Paris
Doctor Zhivago
The Jungle Book (the animated Disney one)
The Death of Stalin
The Battle of Britain - just for the amazing flying sequences and especially the fantastic "Battle in the Air" sequence which has no sounds of battle just William Walton's music
In Bruges
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Pretty much all the Coen Bros stuff:
Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink
Fargo
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Man Who Wasn't There
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
True Grit
A Serious Man
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Mark Jenkin:
Bait
Enys Men
Jeremy Saulnier:
Blue Ruin
Green Room
Robert Eggers:
The Witch
The Lighthouse
Billy Wilder:
Double Indemnity
Sunset Boulevard
Some Like It Hot
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Rogerzilla nominated 2001 A Space Oddyssey.
I saw the Cinerama version, which was spectacular with a capital F. I've tried to watch it in other formats, but they were disappointing.
Are there any Cinerama cinems left?
Bradford: https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema
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"Made on a stupidly low budget" mention upthread reminds me:
Clerks
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I like Pcolbeck's mention of Powell and Pressburger (up there with Carol Reed). i especially like Roger Livesey (Blimp and Life and Death) Always thought he would have made a good Hannay.
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Rogerzilla nominated 2001 A Space Oddyssey.
I saw the Cinerama version, which was spectacular with a capital F. I've tried to watch it in other formats, but they were disappointing.
Are there any Cinerama cinems left?
Bradford: https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema
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"Made on a stupidly low budget" mention upthread reminds me:
Clerks
Thank you very much. :thumbsup:
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The Ladykillers (original)
(That you needed to specify the original is disturbing)
And, yes, mystery train
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Went the Day Well (1942)
British film made during WW2 but actually set in the future after the war, but almost all of the film is told in one continuous flashback about a group of German soldiers taking over a sleepy typical English village during the war.
The Eagle Has Landed (1976), has a somewhat similar plot.
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Off the top of my head, Important Cultural References™ from the days before subtitles that I've made barakta watch over the years...
The Right Stuff
Airplane!
Spaceballs The Movie
The Great Escape
The Italian Job
Tremors
Die Hard
Towering Inferno
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Works in progress:
Blazing Saddles
Full Metal Jacket[1]
Gremlins
Rififi
Every Which Way But Loose
The Poseidon Adventure
[1] It wouldn't be on the list, except that thanks to her ex her only knowledge of the film is the woman-offering-a-blowjob scene, which gives completely the wrong impression and therefore needs correcting.
Is that an ironic, so bad it's good choice?
And I'm a Clint Eastwood fan!
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Rogerzilla nominated 2001 A Space Oddyssey.
I saw the Cinerama version, which was spectacular with a capital F. I've tried to watch it in other formats, but they were disappointing.
Are there any Cinerama cinems left?
Bradford: https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema
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"Made on a stupidly low budget" mention upthread reminds me:
Clerks
Which in turn reminds me:
Dogma
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Off the top of my head, Important Cultural References™ from the days before subtitles that I've made barakta watch over the years...
The Right Stuff
Airplane!
Spaceballs The Movie
The Great Escape
The Italian Job
Tremors
Die Hard
Towering Inferno
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Works in progress:
Blazing Saddles
Full Metal Jacket[1]
Gremlins
Rififi
Every Which Way But Loose
The Poseidon Adventure
[1] It wouldn't be on the list, except that thanks to her ex her only knowledge of the film is the woman-offering-a-blowjob scene, which gives completely the wrong impression and therefore needs correcting.
Is that an ironic, so bad it's good choice?
Being good is in no way a requirement for Important Cultural Reference™ status. Merely that it's useful to have seen them to understand what people are going on about, which is a common barakta problem when it comes to anything that was old-hat in the pre-DVD[1] era.
Which reminds me, The Princess Bride should be on there.
(If I wanted to make a list of films I actually liked, it would look very different.)
[1] She missed out on Ceefax, because reasons.
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Thinking of low budget but excellemt films "That Sinking Feeling", Bill Forsyth's first.
In a completely different vein, Jseph Losey's "King & Country" for a different view of WW1.
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Off the top of my head, Important Cultural References™ from the days before subtitles that I've made barakta watch over the years...
The Right Stuff
Airplane!
Spaceballs The Movie
The Great Escape
The Italian Job
Tremors
Die Hard
Towering Inferno
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Works in progress:
Blazing Saddles
Full Metal Jacket[1]
Gremlins
Rififi
Every Which Way But Loose
The Poseidon Adventure
[1] It wouldn't be on the list, except that thanks to her ex her only knowledge of the film is the woman-offering-a-blowjob scene, which gives completely the wrong impression and therefore needs correcting.
Is that an ironic, so bad it's good choice?
Being good is in no way a requirement for Important Cultural Reference™ status. Merely that it's useful to have seen them to understand what people are going on about, which is a common barakta problem when it comes to anything that was old-hat in the pre-DVD[1] era.
Which reminds me, The Princess Bride should be on there.
(If I wanted to make a list of films I actually liked, it would look very different.)
[1] She missed out on Ceefax, because reasons.
Jaws
Some Like It Hot
"you are going to need a bigger list"
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The Wizard of Oz
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Ones that I don't think have been mentioned yet:
La Vita è Bella (1997)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Rain Man (1988)
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Ladri di Bicicletti
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Loads of stuff on there for me, particularly the French stuff, such as the two Pagnol films (jean/Manon) and Longue Dimanche de Fiancailles (VL Engagement). I would another Jean-Baptiste Rossi ('Sebastian Japrisot') adaptation [excuse lack of accents] L'Ete Meurtrier (One Deadly Summer)
Alien and Aliens are shoo-ins, along with Carpenter's 'The Thing', but I would add the original Creature Feature from which Aliens drew some crucial scenes, 'Them'. Amazing child acting in the opening, and one of L Nimoy's first outings.
I would add Schindler's List as a film I never want to see again, and not because it is a bad one, and 'The Cruel Sea' to pair up with 'Ice Cold'
Oh: and Princess Bride.
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Must-see films:
Dr Strangelove
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A few not mentioned:
“Ace in the Hole” - Wilder
“Theorem” - Pasolini
“Short Cuts” - Altman
“Goodfellas” - Scorsese
“I Know Where I’m Going” - P&P
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Grosse Point Blank - great soundtrack
Dr Strangelove
Three Colours Blue, White & Red - in that order
The Double Life of Veronique
Babette's Feast
The Witness - not to be confused with a Harrison Ford fillum, this ones about the futility of communism in Hungary as satire.
Leningrad Cowboys Go America - bone dry Finnish humour.
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Leningrad Cowboys Go America - bone dry Finnish humour.
Oh yes, definitely! :)
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That brought to mind "The Cuckoo"
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L&H;
Sons of the Desert
Towed in a Hole
County Hospital
(and others)
The Usual Suspects
The Grand Budapest Hotel
For a Few Dollars More
The last 20 minutes of Home Alone
The Magnificent Seven
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Paper Moon
Buch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Midnight Run
Lawrence of Arabia
Delicatessen
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Reservoir Dogs
Grave of the Fireflies
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The Ladykillers (original)
(That you needed to specify the original is disturbing)
I note that when PeterM said:
Pretty much all the Coen Bros stuff
...there were a couple of notable omissions from his list. Presumably deliberate. (He should have mentioned The Hudsucker Proxy though.)
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Not sure what made me think of this just now, but it's a definite for the list...
Jan Svankmajer's Alice
It's the only film adaptation of Lewis Carroll that comes anywhere close to capturing the true horror of Wonderland. And while I'm thinking of Carroll-inspired films, Jabberwocky is OK but if we're going to have a Gilliam on the list, it surely has to be...
Time Bandits
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Summer of Soul. There may be a better concert movie out there, but I've not seen it.
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Since Peter Greenaway has been mentioned,
Drowning By Numbers
It's probably his most accessible and, as usual, is incredible to look at.
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There's loads really I'm very fond of much of the output of the US in the late 60s and 70s. The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy etc.
Seems like a period of introspection, before the triumphalist era of the late 80s and 90s.
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Talking to my collagues in Minnesota they reminded my of Fargo, and that led to 3 Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.
others - Pans Labyrinth, The Devils Backbone, Amores Perros, No Country for Old Men, Mulholland Drive, Crash, 21 Grams, City of God, City of Men
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Summer of Soul. There may be a better concert movie out there, but I've not seen it.
Deliberately didn't put that in, to see if it would flush you out! Colleague at work asked if I'd seen it the other day. Huge brownie point!
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I note that when PeterM said:
Pretty much all the Coen Bros stuff
...there were a couple of notable omissions from his list. Presumably deliberate. (He should have mentioned The Hudsucker Proxy though.)
Yes, the omissions were deliberate. I didn't mention The Big Lebowski because it had been cited earlier. I remember enjoying The Hudsucker Proxy years ago, but it seems to have vanished from all platforms, so I omitted it on the precautionary principle.
I've got a soft spot for Hail Caesar, but I'd not describe it as a must-see film.
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I've got a soft spot for Hail Caesar, but I'd not describe it as a must-see film.
Would that it were.
I still have the Hudsucker Proxy on DVD.
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Summer of Soul. There may be a better concert movie out there, but I've not seen it.
Deliberately didn't put that in, to see if it would flush you out! Colleague at work asked if I'd seen it the other day. Huge brownie point!
I was waiting for you to mention it! I don't think I know another film that makes me laugh and cry so much, and at different points every time.
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"must see" is not the same as "culturally significant" or "favourite" surely.
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Breathless (À bout de souffle) (1960).
I'm not sure what "must see" means exactly.
The above is certainly a landmark film and "culturally significant" but one doesn't have to like it.
To me a favourite could be an obscure film I like but can see it's not going to appeal to a lot of people so I would not call it a "must see" film.
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Peeping Tom (1960)
Apparently ended Michael Powell's career.
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There's loads really I'm very fond of much of the output of the US in the late 60s and 70s. The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy etc.
Seems like a period of introspection, before the triumphalist era of the late 80s and 90s.
I’d agree. Both of those films could easily have been on my list.
I’m not sure why I didn’t put The Sorrow and the Pity on my list. Probably because it’s a documentary.
I’d like to say I was inspired to watch it because it’s referenced as a ´must watch’ at the beginning and end of Annie Hall by Woody Allen, but I’d be lying. I discovered it much later in life.
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Virtually anything by Claude Lelouch or Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
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The Wages of Fear.
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The Wages of Fear.
William Friedkin's not-a-remake-honest "Sorcerer" is quite OK* too but suffered from being released at more or less the time as "Star Wars". At least, that's Friedkin's story.
Also, The Fear Of Wages ["Please leave" - Ed.]
* Except for the bit where Roy Scheider goes:
- from the jungle of the Dominican Republic to the New Mexico desert in a hundred yards, and
- bonkers
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One called The Old Gun in English, with Philippe Noiret and
Roy Scheider Romy Schneider.
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The Death of Stalin
Excellent pick. As are many many others here, but I've picked on this as you've dared to go pretty recent. Inspiring me to risk:
JoJo Rabbit
And while I'm here:
Toy Story 2
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Talking of JoJo Rabbit and Ianucci. We saw a very strong sequence of films in succession at the cinema in early 2020, two being JoJo Rabbit and The Personal History of David Copperfield, and the third being 1917. I'm not sure if they are 'must see' films but they would all come close to to the top of my personal list of favourites.
Since then the Netflix All Quiet on the Western Front was very good, and would probably have been even better if - like 1917 - I'd seen it on the big screen.
Going back further, having proposed The Graduate and The Third Man in 'the best ending' thread, I would say that the rest of those films are pretty damn fine also.
One film that really affected me at the time was The Unbearable Feeling of Lightness - one of those cinema experiences where it felt as if the whole of the audience was left stunned into silence and immobility throughout the closing credits and unable to break the magic by getting up and walking out. I have no memory now of what it was about, except that there were plenty of naughty bits, but I haven't sought it out since in case it turns out to have been a bit crap. It also sounds very wanky to say that a film with that title is a favourite when friends are suggesting Gladiator or The Matrix, so I've kept quiet about until now.
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Virtually anything by Claude Lelouch or Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Jeunet and Caro films are wonderful.
I think the last of their output I watched was Micmacs. My favourite is probably City of Lost Children. Deeply flawed and overcomplicated...but what imagery!
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Kelly's Heroes
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I'm surprised nobody else has listed l'Atalante (1934) - the "must see" film where you could print each frame as a B&W image.
(Jean Vigo's only other output approaching a film was Zero de Conduit)
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One film that really affected me at the time was The Unbearable Feeling of Lightness - one of those cinema experiences where it felt as if the whole of the audience was left stunned into silence and immobility throughout the closing credits and unable to break the magic by getting up and walking out. I have no memory now of what it was about, except that there were plenty of naughty bits, but I haven't sought it out since in case it turns out to have been a bit crap. It also sounds very wanky to say that a film with that title is a favourite when friends are suggesting Gladiator or The Matrix, so I've kept quiet about until now.
Presume you mean The Unbearable Lightness of Being? With Daniel Day Lewis and Juliette Binoche?
I remember when it came out and a lot of my fiends felt much the same as you about it but for some reason it did nothing for me. I couldn’t tell you why now though. Maybe I should revisit it.
Doesn’t sound wanky at all to mention it, btw.
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Yes. I evidently find the name so pretentious I can't get it right.
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One Life
Anthony Hopkins at his best. And very timely.
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Kelly's Heroes
First saw that in Eindhoven, in English with Dutch subtitles. At one point one of the characters said "shit", at which we anglophones laughed (it was 1971) but the Dutch audience stayed silent. Then about 15 seconds later the subtitle "Barst!" came up and the Dutch all cackled. Later looked it up but couldn't find anything on the level of shit.
And now you know who I worked for in 1971.
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Kelly's Heroes
First saw that in Eindhoven, in English with Dutch subtitles. At one point one of the characters said "shit", at which we anglophones laughed (it was 1971) but the Dutch audience stayed silent. Then about 15 seconds later the subtitle "Barst!" came up and the Dutch all cackled. Later looked it up but couldn't find anything on the level of shit.
And now you know who I worked for in 1971.
My dad worked for them (in the UK) from 1955, starting off at Mullard Research Lab, Salfords, then Mitcham then Crawley.
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Kelly's Heroes
First saw that in Eindhoven, in English with Dutch subtitles. At one point one of the characters said "shit", at which we anglophones laughed (it was 1971) but the Dutch audience stayed silent. Then about 15 seconds later the subtitle "Barst!" came up and the Dutch all cackled. Later looked it up but couldn't find anything on the level of shit.
And now you know who I worked for in 1971.
My dad worked for them (in the UK) from 1955, starting off at Mullard Research Lab, Salfords, then Mitcham then Crawley.
I was based in Glasgow but in Eindhoven on a course, a quarter of which was devoted to corporate "ain't we great?"
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I only know of one company that is famously based in Eindhoven, and I only know that because of its moderately successful football team. Is it that one?
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I only know of one company that is famously based in Eindhoven, and I only know that because of its moderately successful football team. Is it that one?
Well there's something I've learned. Never realized they were an ex-works club.
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I only know of one company that is famously based in Eindhoven, and I only know that because of its moderately successful football team. Is it that one?
Well there's something I've learned. Never realized they were an ex-works club.
It's what put the P in PSV.
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It's that Japanese company, Xxxrrxxx.
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The Muppet Christmas Carol. Michael Caine did exactly the right thing by playing it as if it were a serious production.
For so many people it is a surprise that there was only one Marley in the Dickens novel.
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I only know of one company that is famously based in Eindhoven, and I only know that because of its moderately successful football team. Is it that one?
Well there's something I've learned. Never realized they were an ex-works club.
It's what put the P in PSV.
Oh yeah it's that bus company, Public Service Vehicle Eindhoven. :D
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I only know of one company that is famously based in Eindhoven, and I only know that because of its moderately successful football team. Is it that one?
Well there's something I've learned. Never realized they were an ex-works club.
It's what put the P in PSV.
Oh yeah it's that bus company, Public Service Vehicle Eindhoven. :D
Bit like Manchester United's full name: Manchester LYR United